perennials TagAll blog entries tagged as perennialshttp://www.kzyx.org/index.php/latest
Fri, 09 Dec 2016 05:28:25 -0800Joomla! 1.7 - Open Source Content Managementen-gbRestoration Agriculture and Holistic Management: Bill and Jaye interview Mark Shepard and Spencer Smithhttp://www.kzyx.org/index.php/talk/self-help-and-sustainability/the-farm-and-garden-show/entry/restoration-agriculture-and-holistic-management-bill-and-jaye-interview-mark-shepard-and-spencer-smith
http://www.kzyx.org/index.php/talk/self-help-and-sustainability/the-farm-and-garden-show/entry/restoration-agriculture-and-holistic-management-bill-and-jaye-interview-mark-shepard-and-spencer-smithOur guests were Mark Shepard of New Forest Farm and Spencer Smith of Jefferson Center for Holistic Management (an Allan Savory hub). We edited a great show but my exhaustion after meant I forgot to put it in "ready for web", and currently it does not seem to play on jukebox. There was great discussion on water management, feral pigs as a resource (related to recent local news coverage on this station), perennial ecosystems, use of livestock to manage lands and provide pest and disease control of fruit and nut plantings, and the fact that there is a process to make decisions in this complex and very profitable and ecologically sustainable way of farming. There will be a workshop to teach participants just that at Ridgewood Ranch in Willits from Friday March 18-Sunday March 20. To register for for more info visit

I will link to the show once it is accessible, perhaps around the 12th or perhaps as late as the 21st of March.

]]>lsmacelwee@hotmail.com (The Farm and Garden Show)UncategorizedSat, 05 Mar 2016 12:52:10 -0800Restoration Agriculture August 18, 2014http://www.kzyx.org/index.php/talk/self-help-and-sustainability/the-farm-and-garden-show/entry/restoration-agriculture-august-18-2014
http://www.kzyx.org/index.php/talk/self-help-and-sustainability/the-farm-and-garden-show/entry/restoration-agriculture-august-18-2014Bill Taylor's guest (Jaye is away so I am soloing this month) is Mark Shepard, who runs New Forest Farm in Southwest Wisconsin and wrote Restoration Agriculture (Acres USA, 2013). He discusses perennial agriculture on a farm scale, and a model for interns that fosters resilience in them; it is very different from most internships in that interns build their own shelter and start their own business using the farm as land base for it.

We were partially preempted by President Obama so the show is abbreviated.

We did not discuss the internship program; the farm runs as a sort of community of businesses working closely with each other as I understand it.

]]>lsmacelwee@hotmail.com (The Farm and Garden Show)Self Help and SustainabilityWed, 13 Aug 2014 14:16:58 -0700WILDOAK LIVING Archived Program: Climate Change Series, Part 3: Paradise Lothttp://www.kzyx.org/index.php/talk/self-help-and-sustainability/wildoak-living/entry/wildoak-living-archived-program-climate-change-series-part-3-paradise-lot
http://www.kzyx.org/index.php/talk/self-help-and-sustainability/wildoak-living/entry/wildoak-living-archived-program-climate-change-series-part-3-paradise-lotThis program was broadcast on April 15, 2013. You can listen to it online or download a copy of it to your portable device here:

Climate change. Floods and droughts. Plummeting biodiversity. Malnutrition and obesity. Rising rates of cancer and other diseases. This program continues our series Changing Climate - Changing World, and takes a look at how our changing climate is changing the world we live in, locally and globally. Part 3 continues to look at how climate change and a growing scarcity of fossil fuels will impact our food system and features two examples of adaption to these coming changes.

I talk with Eric Toensmeier, permaculture pioneer and author of Paradise Lot the story of two plant geeks who created an edible garden oasis on a tenth of an acre in the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts and found their sweethearts along the way.

This series is part of my contribution to education about climate change. The idea for this series on Wildoak Living was born during an interview I did with Dr. Peter Joseph in early 2012. He inspired me to check out the The Climate Reality Project, founded and chaired by former Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore. In August of 2012, I was trained by Al Gore and The Climate Reality Project to educate about climate change and became one of the more than 4000 volunteer climate leaders. You can listen to two interviews I did with Dr. Peter Joseph here and here.

You can listen to the other programs in this Climate Change Series here: